Principal DevOps Engineer

Job Requisition ID #

24WD81553

Position Overview

Autodesk's Design and Engineering innovative software enables Designers and Engineers to imagine, design and create the world around us: cars, buildings, bridges, movies, clothes, 3D printed objects and so much more. We provide our customers a broad portfolio of software to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges.

Autodesk’s cloud transformation is revolutionizing our industry, enabling Designers and Engineers to collaborate from anywhere on any device.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Cloud/Machine Learning (ML) DevOps Engineer to join our growing AutoCAD team. As a DevOps Engineer at Autodesk, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing new service offerings on top of a strong cloud foundation. Reporting to the Engineering Manager in the AutoCAD group, you will be involved in streamlining our development and deployment processes, enhancing system reliability, and ensuring the scalability and security of our infrastructure. You'll be working as part of a larger DevOps team that strives to deliver high quality cloud solutions and infrastructures for the multi-platform AutoCAD application that serves millions of users. We support hybrid work environments. This role is hybrid in downtown Vancouver.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the engineers and be accountable for the engineering output

• Collaborate closely with product management, product engineering, software architect, experience designer and other cross-functional cross-geo partners in delivering world class solutions to business problems

• Embody a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement with a focus on performance, scalability, privacy, and security

• Design and implement new service offerings on top of a strong cloud foundation

• Support development teams in leveraging machine learning operations (MLOps)

• Drive the design, implementation, and management for expanding observability infrastructure, keeping up to date with new technologies

• Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities

• Collaborate with software development and the infrastructure team to design, implement, and maintain multiple business offerings

• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of infrastructure using modern DevOps tools and practices

• Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions

• Implement and maintain configuration management and infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform

• Collaborate in designing and implementing security best practices throughout the development and deployment pipelines

• Periodical On-Call responsibility, alongside your fellow team members

• Define and document best practices across all pillars of DevOps/SRE

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• Proven experience in DevOps / SRE or a related field

• 10+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Proven technical leadership skills, proven ability to coach others. Abilities to lead and influence up, down, and across the organization

• Demonstrates mature judgment when making engineering decisions, and can reliably make the call between elegant and practical solutions

• Experience with Agile development methodologies including Scrum and Test Driven Development

• A passion for everything performance, observability, availability, scalability, and security with experience delivering and operating cloud services on public cloud infrastructure over multi-year and multi-release cycles

• Expertise in DevOps / SRE practices, including IaC, configuration management, container technologies, microservices, CI/CD processes, etc.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, along with the ability to work independently

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About Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $131,500 and $180,840. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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